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THE GUMSHOE SITE
(Opened on January 08, 1996)
Thank you very much for your visit. Okay, this is my 30th year of managing The Gumshoe Site. Do you believe it? I still don't believe it! I moved to another place in November 2022 and I am still arranging my boxes of books and books and books. This moving results in my being way behind my schedule of managing this same old site. I am still wondering if I should continue keeping this old site. I have not made a decision yet. Despite of this mumblings, I hope you enjoy this site. Thank you for your warm support. I am now living a modest, slow and lazy life for my own safety. If you want to know what I was doing last year, I wrote something about thie site for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's blog site, "A Mystery Website -- Easy to Launch, But So Hard to Keep Fresh", which was commissioned by Janet Hutchings before she retired as EQMM's Editor at the end of last September. Please stay safe and healthy in this unpredictable world!! (January 15, 2025)
Warning to bloggers! -- When you re-use my info, please do not copy-and-paste it word for word, but quote it or paraphrase it, at least. My wording is so awkwardly distinct or so distinctly awkward, I can easily spot copy-and-paste non-artists, and so can smart blog-readers.
2025 Lefty Award Nominees Announced
Left Coast Crime has announced the nominees for the 2025 Lefty Awards. The six nominees in the Best Mystery Novel category are as follows:
HOME FIRES, by Claire Booth (Severn House)
BLESSED WATER, by Margot Douaihy (Zando/Gillian Flynn)
ASSASSINS ANONYMOUS, by Rob Hart (Putnam)
MOLTEN DEATH, by Leslie Karst (Severn House)
SERVED COLD, by James L'Etoile (Level Best)
CALIFORNIA BEAR, by Duane Swierczynski (Mulholland)
To see the other nominees in all the categories, click here. The winners will be announced at the awards banquet on Saturday, March 15 during Left Coast Crime Convention to be held in Denver, Colorado from March 13 thru 16.
(January 15, 2025)
Strand Critics Award Nominees Announced
The Strand Magazine announced the nominees for the 2024 Strand Magazine Critics Awards in as follows:
Best Mystery Novel: (7)
All the Sinners Bleed, by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron Books)
Everybody Knows, by Jordan Harper (Mulholland Books)
Small Mercies, by Dennis Lehane (Harper)
Resurrection Walk, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
Prom Mom, by Laura Lippman (William Morrow)
Timefs Undoing, by Cheryl A. Head (Dutton)
The Secret Hours, by Mick Herron (Soho Crime)
Best Debut Mystery: (6)
Fadeaway Joe, by Hugh Lessig (Crooked Lane Books)
Mother-Daughter Murder Night, by Nina Simon (William Morrow)
The House in the Pines, by Ana Reyes (Dutton)
Donft Forget the Girl, by Rebecca McKanna (Sourcebooks Landmark)
Adrift, by Lisa Brideau (Sourcebooks Landmark)
The Peacock and the Sparrow, by I.S. Berry (Atria Books)
TWO Strand Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients:
Kathy Reichs and
Max Allan Collins
Strand Publisher of the Year Award Recipient:
Jonathan Karp of Simon and Schuster
(July, 19 2024)
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As you may know by now, this site is managed by Jiro Kimura.
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